Feinberg/Whitman
Box 15 Folder 13
General Correspondence
Routledge (George) & Sons
Dec. 1867 - Feb. 1868NEW-YORK  
DEC 
29 
Please Return to GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS,
BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
416 Broome Street, New York,
If not called for in TEN DAYS.

[*From Messrs. Roultedge
(ans. enclosed)*]

[*see 
notes June 4 
1888*]

Walt Whitman Esqr
Treasury Dept.
Washington 
D.C.CARRIER 
DEC
[?]
1 delGeorge Routledge & Sons
Publishers, booksellers, and imports.
London, ... Broadway, Ludgate Hill. 
New York, ... No. 416 Broome Street.

Special Agents in the United States for Alexander Strahan & Co's Publications. 

416 Broome St., New York, Dec 28, 1864. 

Walt Whitman Esqr.
Dear Sir,
The editor of "The Broadway"
 Mr. Edmund Routledge, London,
 writes desiring us with get from you,
 if we can, one or two papers or poems 
for his menagerie. He was offered
 early sheets of your paper on Democracy
 from the "Galaxy" but that
 would not suit his [purpose?]. he wants
such only as he can have for both sides
of the Atlantic and is willing to pay
accordingly. We do not suggest
the title of any subject believing
you to now best the subjects on
which you would like to write
for such a magazine. Lest you
may not know the magazine we
send you by mail a copy of eachof the five members already published
No 6 will contain papers by Francis
Turner Palgrave and Henry Sedley
Editor of the Round Table and a long
poem by W, M. Rossetti,
Hoping to have [an early] favorable reply
from you on an early day
We remain
Yours respectfully
fm G Routeledge & Sons
Jas. BarrsiGeo. Roulte[g]dge & sons
416 Broome st N.Y.
[The answer to]
I have received the letter
asking me to write for the "Broadway"
I do not write much, but [assure
you that I] your invitation [is
a pl may] is cordially appreciated.
[& I will] and [I will] may serve as
[an] the [agreeable] spur [to be] toward something.
I [will] can at present only briefly say that [if
I can make out something feel to
write some piece, or poem, I can]
should I [write a] be able to
prepare an article, or poem, [that
would seem to be appropriate for]
appropriate for the purposes of
the magazine. I will send it on.
- & that I [will] shall [probably] surely try to do so.

My address is at the Attorney General's office here
(New York House please forward this to Mr. Edmund Routledge London)letter to Messrs Routledge
Dec 30, 1887
I sent "Whispers of Heavenly Death" which they printed & paid handsomely for in gold
Februay 22 '1808
Messre Routledge (J. L. Blamire)
Gentlemen:
Your letter [arrives]
reached me tis morn'g, enclos'g draft
for Fifty dollars, gold coin, deposit
in Bank of New York - of which
[sum] amount: paid me, for poem (with reservation
to myself of right to print in future
book.) you will please consider this
[as] the receipt.
[Please accept my thanks my regard, for
your promptness]
Please accept my respects to
[pu] editor & [pu] house - with thanks
to yourself for promptness.
[J. L. Blamire]Note to Routledge & Sons N.Y.
Feb. 22 '68